Sanitary chicken roost



A. SHOULTS SANITARY CHICKEN ROOST Aug. 28, w23.

Filed Julie 24 lamented Aug. '28, 1923.

.ABE SHOULTS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SANITARY CHICKEN vROOSI.

Application filed .Tune 24, 19271. Serial Ifo. 480,029.

To aZZ w/zom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ABE SHoULTs,'a citizen of the vUnited States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have Vinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Chicken Boosts, of which the following is aspeciication.

This invention is to prevent rlice from crawling to and upon poultry roosts, and provides for the destruction wi-th insecticide of any lice that approach the roost.

ln the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur7 .Figure 1 is a perspective view of this holder for fowl-roosts;

Figure 2 is a sectional view through the upper part thereof; and

Figure 3 is a similar sectional View of a slightly modified form.

A casting 1 contains counter-sunk screwholes 2 for attaching the same to a wall or post or other suitable support.

ln the same casting 1 is formed a wedgeshaped tapering groove 3, adapted to receive and hold the wedge-shaped and tapering tongue 4 on casting 5. y

lNithin casting 5 is formed a cup or receptacle 6, intended and adapted to contain insecticide, preferably in liquid form. The central stud 7 projects upwardly from the bottom of the said cup 6 and has a stud 8 as shown in Figure 8), formed thereon, or

is provided with an internal bore 9, or the like, adapted to receive and hold the pin 10, -which will preferably be sweated therein.

rllhe edge 11 of stud 7 in Figures 1 and i2 contains notches 12 and similar notches are formed .in the shoulders 13 in that form of stud 7 shown in Figure 3. Y

Ridges or projections 14C and 15 formed on the edges 16 and 17 surrounding the holes 18 and 19 in casting 20, are adapted to seat notches 12 and thereby 'to prevent the rotation of the castings 20, which are the roost-holders proper and contain counter sunk screw-holes 21, by' which-theV roosts i (not shown in theV to the holders 20. t

drawings) are attached Each holder or casting 20 is provided with a plurality of holes 18 and 19, ar#

ranged at different angles, Vwhereby it is possible to arrange the rroost-holder-l 20 either at an oblique pitch, as "shown in Figure 2, or horizontally as shownA in Figure 3.

The tongue 4 is not only wedge-shaped in horizontal cross-section, but, also, tapers downwardly, the groove 3 being made to :lit both aspects of this shape.

rFicEjf It will be observed that member 2O .is

loosely supported on member 5 is loosely supported by member 1, This makes it possible easily to disassemble all the parts .to cleanse them thoroughly. It also facilitates the cleansing of the roosts (not shown in the drawings), because a detachable roost is much easier to cleanse than one that it permanentlynailed plr otherwise fastened in a poultry-roosting ouse.k

Having thus described -this invention, l

hereby reserve the benefit of all changes in form, arrangement, order,'or use of parts, as

member 5, and that it is evident that many minor changes may be made therein without spirit of this invention following claim.

claim: V In a device of the character departingv from the or the scope of the described, the

- combinationv of a fixed member and detachable members supported thereby, one of the said detachable members containing an iusecticide cup, and a stud projecting there from, and the other detachable member containing a plurality of sockets, the said sock'- ets being adapted to seat on the said stud, and the said sockets being arranged at different angles.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aliiX my signature.

ABE sHoULrs.

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